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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:35:34 -0800
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Subject: Re: 1.5.24 format.com hangs through ssh
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Thanks for your effort Robert.  I was hoping that my Cygwin environment 
was somehow to blame.

What did you mean that formatting alone was not sufficient?  I was able 
to read and write to the drive once the format was complete.

-srp

Robert Pendell wrote:
> srp wrote:
>> Thanks Larry.  Version Updated.  1.5.24 is correct.
>>
>> You WAG wrong however.  Once the Volume has been formated in a native 
>> Cygwin window I can format successfully via SSH and all output is 
>> displayed.
>>
>> With a newly created tiny volume the hang last in excess of an hour 
>> and should complete in second.
>>
>> -srp
>>
> 
> Ok.  I have a couple of Virtual Machines setup here for testing purposes 
> and such so I setup a cygwin install on the XP one (snapshot before hand 
> so it can revert back clean) and installed a base cygwin setup with 
> openssh.  Then I installed the server and set it up as a service.  I 
> also turned off the firewall on it (no one can access it outside of the 
> network anyways).  I did not do anything special but it has 2 virtual 
> hard drives to it.  A 1 GB one was added to the virtual machine and I 
> created one unformatted partition that did not have any particular 
> partition type setup.  Therefore it just showed up as RAW for now.  I 
> then had to format it but I tried this via SSH.
> 
> It got stuck right after the line that shows "Proceed with Format 
> (Y/N)?" same as the OP.  The same command worked fine once I formatted 
> the partition locally via Disk Management.  This does not appear to be a 
> WAG (lack of tty support) issue though as this partition formats quickly 
> (under 10 seconds) when done locally but I waited at least a minute for 
> it to complete without success.  Please note that formatting using the 
> format command locally wasn't sufficient.  It had to be done via Disk 
> Management for some reason.  Both quick formats and regular formats got 
> stuck.  Format.com is listed in the processes during this with zero 
> activity and no disk activity is being reported by the Virtual Machine. 
>  Last but not least once it is formatted via Disk Management it works 
> fine via a SSH session with all output coming back on the tty.
> 
> My own cygcheck.out is attached here.
> 
> Operating System: Windows XP SP2 (all updates installed)
> Cygwin Version: 1.5.24 (latest)
> Stock install with only openssh (+ dependencies) and nano installed
> 
> Any tests you want me to do I am more than willing to.  The environment 
> is there to test out scenarios.
> 
> Robert Pendell
> 
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